News

This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Improve It Framework Scottish Launch in association with Bond - 20th November 2012

This is an opportunity for those in the Scottish international development community, including funders, NGO personnel, academics and consultants, to get to grips with two new tools for effectiveness – the Improve It Framework and the revised NIDOS Effectiveness Tool.

The Scottish launch of this package of effectiveness tools and resources will include funder perspectives and hands-on sessions to help organisations become even better at what they do, to be accountable to the people they seek to support, and to document their effectiveness for donors.

Call for papers - Between Global and Local: Adult learning and development network, April 25-27, Ghent, Belgium

Please find below the call for papers for the next conference of the Between Global and Local: adult learning and development network, April 25-27, Ghent, Belgium. Deadline for submitting abstract is January 22:

Urban living and urban developments question increasingly the social and spatial conditions for living together. Urban developments can refer to changing social and spatial conditions within cities as well as in rural areas. In the latter case, this may involve a reflection on how urbanising trends and developments affect for instance local community traditions. In the current discourses, urban public space is on the one hand assumed to lack the conditions for the development of social cohesion, community life and citizenship. On the other hand cities are assumed to represent dynamic sites of social innovation and transformation. Recent changes in the social and spatial structure of cities increase the need to act and reflect upon the tensions in these ‘readings’ of community and urban developments.

Proposals due Nov 15 for CU Expo 2013: The Canadian-led international conference on community-university partnerships

Proposals are due Nov 15 to present at CU Expo, the Canadian-led international conference on community-university partnerships, set to take place June 12-15,

2013 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.  The CU Expo website is now live and information on proposal submission is posted at http://bit.ly/N33FtM

Towards Common Criteria for Learning Communities and Cities (Second Extended Version)

Featured below and attached you will find the second and extended version of the framework document Towards Common Criteria for Learning Communities and Cities (Word and PDF).

You are most welcome to circulate the framework, as we are interested in all kinds of comments and reflections.

Best regards,

Jan Gejel

Xploit Coordinator

Call for Papers -- Resilience and Rebuilding for Low-Income Communities: Research to Inform Policy and Practice

Submissions due: October 1, 2013

The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System invite paper submissions for the eighth Federal Reserve Community Development Research Conference to be held April 11–12, 2013, at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC.

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